Ethnic business [[electronic resource] ] : Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia / / edited by Jomo K.S. and Brian C. Folk

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450982103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
• ISBN: 1-138-81107-6; 1-280-17734-9; 0-203-31329-1; 0-203-41231-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Collana: RoutledgeCurzon studies in the growth economies of Asia ; ; 50
• Classificazione: 83.25
• Altri autori (Persone): Jomo K. S (Jomo Kwame Sundaram); FolkBrian C <1960-> (Brian Cameron)
• Disciplina: 338.6/422/0959
• Soggetti: Minority business enterprises - Southeast Asia; Chinese - Southeast Asia - Economic conditions; Entrepreneurship - Southeast Asia; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes revised papers presented at a workshop held at the University of Malaya in 1997.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Ethnic Business; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia; 3. The politics of 'seeing Chinese' and the evolution of a Chinese idiom of business; 4. The cultural limits of 'Confucian capitalism': power and the invention of the family among Chinese traders in Sarawak; 5. All are flexible, but some are more flexible than others: small-scale Chinese businesses in Malaysia; 6. The leading Chinese-Filipino business families in post-Marcos Philippines; 7. Pre-1997 Sino-Indonesian conglomerates, compared with those of other ASEAN countries8. Determinants of business capability in Thailand; 9. De-mythologizing Charoen Pokphand: an interpretive picture of the CP Group's growth and diversification; 10. Telecommunications, rents and the growth of a liberalization coalition in Thailand; 11. Japanese transnational production networks and ethnic Chinese business networks in East Asia: linkages and regional ; integration; Glossary; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The role of ethnic Chinese business in Southeast Asia in catalyzing economic development has been hotly debated - and often misunderstood - throughout cycles of boom and bust.This book critically examines some of the key features attributed to Chinese business: business-government relations, the family firm, trust and networks, and supposed 'Asian' values. The in-depth case studies that feature in the book reveal considerable diversity among these firms and the economic and political networks in which they manoeuvre.With contributions from leading scholars and under the impressive edit

Eurasian [[electronic resource] ] : mixed identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943 / / Emma Jinhua Teng

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810153403321
• Autore: Teng Emma
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-520-27627-2; 0-520-95700-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/5951013
• Soggetti: Chinese Americans - Ethnic identity - History; Chinese American families - Social conditions; Interracial marriage - United States; Chinese Americans - China - Ethnic identity - History; Chinese American families - China - Social conditions; Interracial marriage - China; Chinese Americans - China - Hong Kong - Ethnic identity - History; Chinese American families - China - Hong Kong - Social conditions; Interracial marriage - China - Hong Kong
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- A Note on Romanization -- ; Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- Introduction -- Part One. Debating Intermarriage -- Part Two. Debating Hybridity -- Part Three. Claiming Identities -- Coda: Elsie Jane Comes Home to Rest -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Personal Names and Terms -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when mixed-race marriage was taboo and "Eurasian" often a derisive term? In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and the claims set forth by individual Eurasians concerning their own identities. Teng argues that Eurasians were not universally marginalized during this era, as is often asserted. Rather, Eurasians often found themselves facing contradictions between exclusionary and inclusive ideologies of race and nationality, and between overt racism and more subtle forms of prejudice that were counterbalanced by partial acceptance and privilege. By tracing the stories of mixed and transnational families during an earlier era of globalization, Eurasian also demonstrates to students, faculty, scholars, and researchers how changes in interracial ideology have allowed the descendants of some of these families to reclaim their dual heritage with pride.